New York Times Bestsellers
Tad Williams has placed one book on the New York Times bestseller lists, spending a combined 5 weeks on the charts.
To Green Angel Tower
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn Series
5 weeks on the Times Hardcover Fiction list · peaked at #12 · debuted Mar 1993
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Reading Order
12 series · 72 books
| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | The Heart of What Was Lost | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | The Witchwood Crown | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Empire of Grass | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | Brothers of the Wind | 2021 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 5 | Into the Narrowdark | 2022 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 6 | The Navigator's Children | 2024 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Flann's Crows Series
0 of 1 read
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| 1 | The Splintered Sun | 2026 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Bobby Dollar Series
0 of 4 read
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| 1 | The Dirty Streets of Heaven | 2012 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Happy Hour in Hell | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Sleeping Late on Judgement Day | 2014 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlepig | 2014 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Legends Series
0 of 3 read
| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | Legends by Stephen King, Anne McCaffrey, Robert Silverberg | 1998 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King by Diana Gabaldon, George R.R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks, Robert Silverberg, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Haydon | 1998 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Legends 3 with Terry Pratchett, Robert Jordan, Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. Le Guin | 1999 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn Series
0 of 4 read
| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | The Dragonbone Chair | 1988 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Stone of Farewell | 1990 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | To Green Angel Tower | 1993 | Locus Award 1994Full award history → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | |
| 4 | To Green Angel Tower, Part 2 | 1993 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Ordinary Farm Adventures Series
0 of 2 read
| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | The Dragons of Ordinary Farm | 2009 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | The Secrets of Ordinary Farm | 2011 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Otherland Series
0 of 4 read
| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | City of Golden Shadow | 1996 | 🏆 Corine Internationaler Buchpreis 2004Full award history → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | |
| 2 | River of Blue Fire | 1998 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Mountain of Black Glass | 1999 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | Sea of Silver Light | 2001 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Shadowmarch Series
0 of 4 read
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| 1 | Shadowmarch | 2004 | Locus Award 2005Full award history → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | |
| 2 | Shadowplay | 2007 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Shadowrise | 2010 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | Shadowheart | 2010 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Tad Williams Other Novels
0 of 7 read
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| 1 | Tailchaser's Song | 1985 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Child of an Ancient City | 1992 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Caliban's Hour | 1994 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | Tad Williams' Mirror World | 1998 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 5 | The War of the Flowers | 2003 | Locus Award 2004Full award history → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | |
| 6 | The Helmet of Fate (Short Story) with Steve Niles, Bill Willingham, Phil Winslade, Gail Simone, Shawn McManus, Scott Hampton, Peter Snejbjerg, Duncan Rouleau, Steve Gerber | 2007 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 7 | Diary of a Dragon (Short Story) | 2012 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Tad Williams Short Story Collections
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | Rite: Short Work | 2006 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | A Stark and Wormy Knight | 2011 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | The Very Best of Tad Williams | 2014 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | Dorothy Dreams (Short Story) by Simon R. Green | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust (Short Story) by Seanan McGuire | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | The Boy Detective of Oz (Short Story) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | A Meeting in Oz (Short Story) by Jeffrey Ford | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 5 | Off to See the Emperor (Short Story) by Orson Scott Card | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 6 | The Cobbler of Oz by Jonathan Maberry | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 7 | Lost Girls of Oz (Short Story) by Theodora Goss | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 8 | Blown Away (Short Story) by Jane Yolen | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 9 | A Tornado of Dorothys (Short Story) by Kat Howard | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 10 | The Veiled Shanghai (Short Story) by Ken Liu | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 11 | Dead Blue (Short Story) by David Farland | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 12 | The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz (Short Story) by C.C. Finlay, Rae Carson | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 13 | Beyond the Naked Eye (Short Story) by Rachel Swirsky | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 14 | City So Bright (Short Story) by Dale Bailey | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 15 | One Flew Over the Rainbow (Short Story) by Robin Wasserman | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Tad Williams Anthologies
0 of 19 read
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| 1 | Weird Tales # 292: Fall 1988 | 1988 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Weird Tales # 296: Spring 1990 | 1990 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | The Anthology of Fantasy and the Supernatural | 1994 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | Immortal Unicorn | 1995 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 5 | DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction | 2002 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 6 | DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies | 2002 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 7 | Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian | 2003 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 8 | The Wood Boy / The Burning Man | 2005 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 9 | Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance | 2009 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 10 | Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary | 2009 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 11 | The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology | 2010 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 12 | Warriors 1 | 2010 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 13 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection | 2011 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 14 | The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities | 2011 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 15 | Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012 | 2012 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 16 | Oz Reimagined | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 17 | Multiverse | 2014 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 18 | Dead Man's Hand | 2014 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 19 | Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
About the Author
Robert Paul "Tad" Williams (born March 14, 1957 in San Jose, California) is an American fantasy author based in California. His works, which span epic fantasy, science fiction, urban fantasy, comics, and scripts, have sold tens of millions of copies worldwide and significantly influenced a generation of writers.